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Getting Results with Curriculum Mapping

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The book is good for curriculum mapping, although the first book in the series would be better (Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12). However, it does a good job of furthering work on collaboration and maintaining a learning community.

I'm reading this book while I'm waiting for Mapping the Big Picture Mapping the Big Picture: Integrating Curriculum & Assessment K-12 , so that's part of my problem... I don't think this is the best book to start with to try to build a basic understanding of how to implement curriculum mapping. The major problem, however, seems to be that H. H. Jacobs is such a bad writer. I find myself reading sentences three or four times over because often, it isn't clear what Jacobs is trying to say. Not only is she redundant, she seems to be trying to create a lot of unnecessary jargon. Words like "spiraling" appear to mean something else to her than they do to, you know, the rest of the English-speaking world, so it is necessary for the reader to stop about once or twice on every page and ask herself, "Okay, is she repeating herself here, or is she using this word as a kind of new jargon?"
I don't know about you guys, but I really don't feel like I have time to try to read a book about curriculum written in a foreign language. Frankly, I think I would have an easier time WERE the book written in a foreign language. I have got to find other books about integrating curriculum across grades and incorporating state standards written by someone else and I am open to recommendations.